TypeError: randint() takes 3 positional arguments but 4 were given

Question

I am writing a rock, paper and scissors bot for a school project. I keep getting the error in the title (TypeError: randint() takes 3 positional arguments but 4 were given) and I don't know why. My code is below.

if userInput : 'rock'
choice = random.randint(1,2,3)
if choice == 1:
    await client.send_message(message.channel, embed=RockEmbed)

elif choice == 2:
    await client.send_message(message.channel, embed=PaperEmbed)

elif choice == 3:
    await client.send_message(message.channel, embed=ScissorsEmbed)

if userInput : 'scissors'
choice2 = random.randint(1,2,3)
if choice2 == 1:
    await client.send_message(message.channel, embed=RockEmbed)
elif choice2 == 2:
    await client.send_message(message.channel, embed=PaperEmbed)
elif choice2 == 3:
    await client.send_message(message.channel, embed=ScissorsEmbed)

if userInput : 'paper'
choice3 = random.randint(1,2,3)
if choice3 == 1:
    await client.send_message(message.channel, embed=RockEmbed)
elif choice3 == 2:
    await client.send_message(message.channel, embed=PaperEmbed)
elif choice3 == 3:
    await client.send_message(message.channel, embed=ScissorsEmbed)   

I've said random.randint(1,2,3), which is clearly 3 arguments, not 4. I'm, pretty sure my syntax is correct, but not 100%.

Answer 1

random.randint only takes two arguments, a start and an end. The third argument mentioned by Python is self, which is done automatically.

To pick a number between 1 and 3, just do random.randint(1,3).

Those if statements don't make any sense, by the way; they should look something like:

if userInput == "paper":
    # send discord messages